Resources and activities

Educational, fun and easy to use resources and activities to support children to have agency in their own learning. These resources are planned with educational rigour in mind.

Outdoor Play

Webinar: Getting Started with the Environmental Kinship Guide

Hear about the newly-created Children’s Environmental Kinship Guide, a framework for supporting early childhood administrators and educators who are interested in implementing a curriculum that deepens children’s kinship with the natural world.

Children playing with rocks in the dirt with a soccer ball sitting in the foreground.

Outdoor Play

Outdoor learning: Outdoor adventures & using our senses

Some of the best learning can take place outdoors. We put together some ideas of activities you can do with your children that will help them use their senses and connect with nature.

Children rest on a bench as they climb a hill

The World Around Us

Imagine a classroom without walls

A big part of going on regular nature explorations, is giving children the opportunity to become familiar with a location and learn about all of the ways it can be explored over time. Dr Anne Meade shares some valuable ideas to consider when embarking on developing your own nature-based learning program.

A toddler stands in a puddle in the middle of the forest

Outdoor Play

Supporting children’s nature play - 3 key ingredients

There are 3 key ingredients to supporting children’s outdoor play and they are a lot simpler than you might think!

A path through a forest with the words "5 Tips to bring nature into your home or early learning environment

Outdoor Play

The World Around Us

Learning in nature - 5 tips to get you started

Providing children with opportunities to have nature-based learning experiences is so valuable, and you know it, but… Where do you start? Here are 5 tips to get you started.

Connecting With Communication

Land as First Teacher

In Reggio Emilia, Italy, they commonly say that the environment is the third teacher. But at the York Region Nature Collaborative at Lake St George in Toronto, they talk about land as being the first teacher. Hopi Martin, Johnny Moore and Diane Kashin unpack exactly what this means for them in their nature-based learning space.

A tea cup and saucer stuck together and filled with bird seed.

Fine Motor Skills

The World Around Us

How to make a Tea Cup Bird Feeder

Tea Cup Bird Feeders help children develop an awareness of and empathy for wild animals.

Taking seed balls out of a mould to lay on the ground

Outdoor Play

The World Around Us

Have fun with seed balls

Making and spreading seed balls is a fun and easy way to create little spots of color in your garden or other surprising places!

A zip-lock bag filled with compost with a straw poking out

Activities

Creating compost in a bag with kids

Compost in a Bag is a way for children to easily understand the decomposition process, and to learn the full cycle of an edible plant - from soil to seed to plant to table to soil.

Worms lying in the palm of a hand in rubber gloves

The World Around Us

Create your own worm farm

Worm farms are a great hands-on way for children to learn about the ecosystem. Involving them in creating and maintaining the worm farm, and using the vermicompost and worm tea to nurture a garden gives great meaning to the ways we can grow and harvest our own food.

Small Children using magnifying glasses to look at insects

Activities

Fine Motor Skills

Create an explorer kit to nurture children's curiosity about the natural world

By giving children the tools to investigate the natural world around them, they can make new discoveries and consider patterns in nature. Explorer kits are a fantastic learning tool and helps foster inquiring minds

Children smiling with their newly build pallet planter.

Activities

Outdoor Play

Build your own pallet planter

No matter your location, if you have an outside area made of concrete, or have an inner city rooftop for a play area, a pallet garden is a great way to involve children in growing fruit, vegetables, herbs or flowers.

Hands holding photos of nature stuck to cardboard

Indoor Play

The World Around Us

Having fun with Nature Eye Spy Cards

Nature Eye Spy Cards encourage children’s curiosity about the natural world.

Outdoor Play

The World Around Us

A guide to nature-based learning

With aspirations to engage children in nature-based learning, it can be challenging to know where to begin! This guide will help you get on your way.

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Resources and activities

Webinar: Getting Started with the Environmental Kinship Guide

Outdoor learning: Outdoor adventures & using our senses

Imagine a classroom without walls

Supporting children’s nature play - 3 key ingredients

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Learning in nature - 5 tips to get you started

Land as First Teacher

How to make a Tea Cup Bird Feeder

Have fun with seed balls

Creating compost in a bag with kids

Create your own worm farm

Create an explorer kit to nurture children's curiosity about the natural world

Build your own pallet planter

Having fun with Nature Eye Spy Cards

A guide to nature-based learning

Document and support children’s learning, together

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